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Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL (University College London), in London, Britain January 13, 2025, as he prepares to launch a plan to harness AI to spur growth and efficiency in the country. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.

Opinion: The Scandal-Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS

John Puntis

US health companies which have used AI to deny giving patients care are providing NHS services. The government must stand up to them, argues John Puntis.

Report: Inside TikTok’s Mass Sacking

Polly Smythe

The Chinese tech giant is giving over 100 UK moderators the sack, begging the question: can it stop the spread of dangerous content with AI? Polly Smythe reports.

Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet?

From climate politics to creating art, there's still much to be decided about the future that AI portends, says Disintegrator co-host Marek Poliks.

Opinion: Rachel Reeves Has a Miracle Cure for Britain: ‘Growth’

James Meadway

Two percentage points of economic growth would mean an extra £24bn in taxes - but Britain’s public services need an extra £142bn a year just to restore 2000s standards. Put this way, the chancellor's fixation on growth appears delusional, writes James Meadway.

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Analysis: Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Actually That Amazing

James Meadway

Computer software that can hold a conversation may have seemed magical, but it wasn't the start of something new, writes James Meadway. It was AI already at its summit, with nowhere to go but down.

Interview: Does Bernie Sanders Think Israel Is Guilty of Genocide?

Bernie Sanders needs no introduction. Ash caught up with the senator to talk about his new book ‘It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism’, the speed of political change and whether what is happening in Gaza constitutes a genocide.

Opinion: I Just Had a Daughter. But Being a Centrist Dad Never Made Less Sense

Aaron Bastani

Starting a family has always been associated with becoming more conservative. Not anymore, writes Aaron Bastani.

Writers Guild of America members and supporters picket outside Sunset Bronson Studios and Netflix Studios in Los Angeles, California. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Creative Workers Too

Aaron Bastani

Creatives thought they were safe from AI, but news that Hollywood producers have refused to accept writers’ demands for constraints on its use shows they are not, writes Aaron Bastani.

Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think. Aaron Meets Ian Hogarth

Opinion: Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of

Aaron Bastani

Grimes took to TikTok last week with a 'proposition for the communists': drop enforced farming, adopt AI. While she's right to claim technology could recast our world for the better, she's wrong to think it can do so on its own.

Mark Zuckerberg testifiesin front of a projected image of his face on a one-dollar note

Analysis: Big Tech’s Mission to Replace the Banks Will End in Tears

James Meadway

As long as profit is allowed to drive developments in fintech, the risks of catastrophic overreach remains, writes James Meadway.

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Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit

Matthew Cole

The much-prophesied “jobs apocalypse” of the fourth industrial revolution will likely never materialise. Yet that isn't to say new technologies aren't degrading work, warns Matthew Cole.

Are You Gonna Go Huawei? 5G and the Rise of AI Nationalism

James Meadway

The recent row over the future of 5G in Britain has shone a spotlight on Huawei, and it's no coincidence questions concerning technology are underpinning the US-China trade dispute. James Meadway explains what debates over 5G and artificial intelligence ought to tell us about the state of global capitalism.

Tag: AI

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: The Scandal-Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS

John Puntis

Report: Inside TikTok’s Mass Sacking

Polly Smythe

Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet?

Opinion: Rachel Reeves Has a Miracle Cure for Britain: ‘Growth’

James Meadway

Analysis: Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Actually That Amazing

James Meadway

Interview: Does Bernie Sanders Think Israel Is Guilty of Genocide?

Opinion: I Just Had a Daughter. But Being a Centrist Dad Never Made Less Sense

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Creative Workers Too

Aaron Bastani

Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think. Aaron Meets Ian Hogarth

Opinion: Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of

Aaron Bastani

Analysis: Big Tech’s Mission to Replace the Banks Will End in Tears

James Meadway

Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit

Matthew Cole

Are You Gonna Go Huawei? 5G and the Rise of AI Nationalism

James Meadway

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Tag: AI

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: The Scandal-Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS

John Puntis

Report: Inside TikTok’s Mass Sacking

Polly Smythe

Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet?

Opinion: Rachel Reeves Has a Miracle Cure for Britain: ‘Growth’

James Meadway

Analysis: Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Actually That Amazing

James Meadway

Interview: Does Bernie Sanders Think Israel Is Guilty of Genocide?

Opinion: I Just Had a Daughter. But Being a Centrist Dad Never Made Less Sense

Aaron Bastani

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Creative Workers Too

Aaron Bastani

Downstream: God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think. Aaron Meets Ian Hogarth

Opinion: Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of

Aaron Bastani

Analysis: Big Tech’s Mission to Replace the Banks Will End in Tears

James Meadway

Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit

Matthew Cole

Are You Gonna Go Huawei? 5G and the Rise of AI Nationalism

James Meadway

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